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• BAA for University-Based Center of Excellence in Risk-Based Modeling
• NICHD Work/Family Initiative
• Environment Featured in NHLBI Grant Plans
• 2004 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees, and Research Conference

BAA for University-Based Center of Excellence in Risk-Based Modeling
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for its new competition for a university-based homeland security research center in risk-based modeling. The DHS Center will provide tools and expertise in modeling and simulation to support risk analysis, with the goal of developing predictive tools to assess vulnerabilities and potential responses to attacks to the Nation's critical infrastructure. The DHS Center will also provide policy-informed economic modeling and prediction, to identify the costs and benefits of alternate countermeasures and operation responses aimed at enhancing the security of individuals and systems.

White papers are to be submitted electronically and must be received by 4:00 PM, Eastern Standard Time, 11 August 2003. Invitations to the top candidates will be made by September 6, 2003, for full and detailed proposals. Completed proposal will be due by October 1, 2003.

For instructions, guidelines for submission procedures, and technical questions, refer to the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) site at http://www.orau.gov/dhsuce.

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NICHD Work/Family Initiative
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), in collaboration with other agencies, has announced the intention to develop a research agenda and grants initiative focused on ways to make work and family life more compatible. NICHD plans to create a coalition of funders, researchers, policymakers, work-life professionals, and employers to participate in the initiative.

The initiative will focus on studies that use experimental design methods to test “which types of workplace policies and practices are most beneficial for the health and well-being of workers, their families and children, communities, and workplaces.” The initiative’s goal is then to modify or enhance said policies.

Plans call for NICHD to issue two targeted requests for applications (RFA). The first RFA will ask grantees to develop conceptual models to guide studies, identify workplace issues and barriers, create intervention models, and study feasibility of site-specific interventions. A follow-up RFA will create a network of research teams to use the best of the experimental designs to produce a common protocol to measure inputs and outcomes across a variety of settings.

Contact: Lynne Casper, NICHD
Tel.: 301-435-6983
Email: casperl@mail.nih.gov
web: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/conferences/nichd/initiative.html

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Environment Featured in NHLBI Grant Plans
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) advisers have approved plans for a $26 million interagency initiative to study the link between air pollution and cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. The four-year program, which would involve the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency, would investigate the implications of findings that point to a significant role of airborne particulate matter as a cardiovascular risk factor. The initiative would fund sixteen to eighteen grants.

The proposed RFA was one of seventeen initiatives discussed at a recent meeting of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council. Other programs in the pipeline include Families at Risk, Linking Obesity and Asthma, and Sleep and Disease.

For a complete list of the initiatives, see http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/nhlbac/may03sum.htm .

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NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees, and Research Conference
You are cordially invited to attend the 2004 National Science Foundation Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees, and Research Conference “Putting a Face on the Future: Engineering Emerges from the Lab.”

The conference will be in Dallas, Texas, from January 5-8, 2004, at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel. The conference is hosted by the School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University.

This year's conference focuses on three aspects of humanizing engineering: (1) connecting with cognitive sciences to enhance human performance; (2) connecting with social and behavioral sciences to facilitate positive acceptance of change; and (3) building engineering education infrastructure to ensure continual growth.

For more information and registration, visit the conference’s website at http://engr.smu.edu/nsf2004/.

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